Things are even more exciting at the centre and here are some facts that you may not have known about the UK’s most visited shopping centre…
Bullring provides over 110,000 sq m (1.2m sq ft) of retail space
There are over 160 shops and kiosks within Bullring
3,100 new car parking spaces were created for Bullring (900 in Debenhams Edgbaston Street car park, 1,000 in Centre car park and 1,200 in Selfridges Moor Street car park)
Over 8,000 jobs were created within Bullring
Over half a million pounds a day was spent building Bullring
15,500 tonnes of steel are in Bullring – that’s a ¼ of the steel in the Empire State Building
There’s approximately 90,000 metres³ of concrete within the new Bullring. This is enough concrete to stretch between Birmingham and Oban, Scotland ten times.
The following amounts of glass have been used in Bullring:
• Skyplane: Horizontal: 7,765 sq m
• Vertical: 2,200 sq m
• Structural: 2,381 sq m
Demolition of the old Bullring started the 30 June 2000, with completion in March 2001.